Synchronization of uncoupled oscillators by common gamma impulses: From phase locking to noise-induced synchronization

Nonlinear oscillators can mutually synchronize when they are driven by common external impulses. Two important scenarios are (i) synchronization resulting from phase locking of each oscillator to regular periodic impulses and (ii) noise-induced synchronization caused by the Poisson random impulses, but their difference has not been fully quantified. Here, we analyze a pair of uncoupled oscillators subject to common random impulses with...